Lee Todd Lacks

During his formative years, Lee Todd Lacks spent many hours riding in the back seat of a 1967 Dodge Dart, listening to his mother’s favorite tunes on the radio. In an effort to nurture the genius of her first-born offspring, Mama Lacks exposed him to only the most aesthetically-stimulating repertoire of The Bee Gees, Three Dog Night, ABBA, and The Guess Who.

When he reached the age of first awareness, Grandma Alice and Grandpa Dick showed Lee Todd the Way of the Coupe Deville. Under grandma and grandpa’s loving tutelage, Lee Todd flourished, and many years later, was admitted to Tufts University with the intention of pursuing a masters in ethnomusicology. However, while at Tufts, he fell under the influence of some rather amazing characters, each of whom had a profoundly positive impact upon his development as a human being.

While playing with the New Music Ensemble at Tufts, Lee Todd began to develop a modest reputation as a performance artist and has since performed at venues in Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, and New York. He now lives happily in South Portland, Maine, with his wife, Heather, and their two dogs, Henry and Eliot. After a long hiatus from the stage, Lee Todd is eager to resume his peculiar practice of speak and music.

INFLUENCES

The Bee Gees, The Beatles, The Who, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, The Guess Who, ELO, ABBA, Kraftwerk, The Ramones, Devo, Blondie, The Police, The B-52′s, The Stranglers, The English Beat, Eurythmics, Missing Persons, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Trio, Morphine, Ween, Papas Fritas, The Magnetic Fields, Laurie Anderson, William S. Burroughs, Johnny Cash, Dick Curless, Neil Young, Graham Nash, Jim Carroll, Spaulding Gray, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, Tom Waits, Kate Bush, Giorgio Moroder, Trevor Horn, Grace Jones, Jane Siberry, Vince Clarke, Michael Jonzun, Prince, Bobby McFerrin, Joe Maneri, John McDonald, Matt Samolis.